Dennis Wu: Community Service Award winner.

Dennis Wu, CPA, executive vice president and CFO of UCBH Holdings, received the San Francisco Business Times' CFO of the Year-Community Service Award.

Prior to working at UCBH, Wu had a 37-year career at Deloitte and Touche, LLP, serving as partner from 1979-04. During his time at UCBH, Wu rebuilt and upgraded the finance staff, hired more than 20 permanent staff to replace more than 30 temporary consultants, built a succession plan into each company position and eliminated a SOX material weakness in the company's financial controls within three months of his appointment.

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Wu also shines as a community member. To name a few of his accomplishments, Wu was the first racial minority president of San Francisco's Commonwealth Club and of Berkeley's Hass School of Business Alumni Association; he served on the Board of Self Help for the Elderly and has worked with the Chinese American Voter Education Committee; and he serves on the advisory board of the National Asian American Society of Accountants, which will serve as a mentoring organization.